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was picked up under the telegraph-wires on the Annan and 
Carhsle Road, and brought to Mr. WiUiam Wright of Annan 
as he kindly informs me. In the same year " Mabie Moss " 
stated that this species occurred almost every autumn, and 
afine male was shot at Carnsalloch on October 5th, 1897 "* 
He adds : " Although its nest has not been got for many 
years, there can be only small doubt that a pair or two still 
breed with us." A specimen, presented to the Royal 
Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, by Mr. R. Service, was picked 
up beneath the telegraph-wires at Noblehill (Dumfries) 
on September 3rd, 1903.t 
The Spotted Crake in the breeding-season is generally 
distributed throughout Europe in suitable localities. To the 
southern and eastern counties of England it is a summer- 
visitant, but some individuals stay throughout the winter 
m the southern and south-western counties. 
BAILLON'S CRAKE. Porzami baillom {yieillot). 
Has occurred once. 
Sir Wilham Jardine writes in 1842 that a specimen of 
BaiUon's Crake " is now before us, shot in summer, a few 
years smce, m an extensive moss in this vicinity."f There 
is no mention of this specimen either in the Catalogue of 
the Birds contained in the collection of Sir William Jardine 
nor m the actual sale-catalogue of June 17th, 1886 ; nor did 
It pass with his coUection of British birds to the Edinburgh 
Museum in 1876. Mr. R. Service authoritatively gives the 
date and place of this occurrence as " 1835, near Loch- 
maben."§ 
* Kirkcudbright Advertiser, November 15th, 1897. 
t Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1904, p. 69. 
t Nat. Lib., 1842, Vol. XII., p. 336. 
§ Trans. D. and G. Nat. Hist. Soc, April 20th, 1905. 
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